On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, John Honniball wrote:
> Oh, and if you try to boot a non-bootable disk, you get a
> nice friendly message about that disk being a data disk --
> now why couldn't they make it say something when there's NO
> disk??
This is the same thing with Apple ][ models prior to the //c and //gs. If
a disk was not bootable or the disk drive was malfunctioning, it would
seek forever for something without displaying anything on the screen.
Radio Shack copied a lot of features from the Apple ][, and this was
probably one of them.
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